PASSER BAROE JAKARTA --Shopping Homely--

By: Dewi Linggasari 





Really feels homely atmosphere when entering the footsteps Passer Baroe gate area, not far from the shopping center, glistening towering Monas. Passer Baroe located in the heart of the city, the New Market Village, District Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta. Dusk light that bounced off the yellow glass shops, slowly fading in the color purple. The bustle of the traders and shoppers continue, pulsing lifeblood tub. The fruit sellers hawking merchandise with friendly carts, apple, orange, longan, bark according to the date of the season. "Come, let's ... fresh fruits". Street vendors offer a variety of crafts, clothes, handbags, shoes, and supplies everyday. Along the way visitors move with a relaxing evening enjoying the moment will soon turn dark. While the Ciliwung River still flowed in silence like that has happened hundreds of years ago.

On the two sides of the road Jalan Pasar Baru is a row of clothing shops, textile shops, tailor shop, sporting goods store, shoes, sunglasses, and gold shops. Eye view of what is really spoiled, 'what is needed and could quickly be obtained?' I visited a store filled with various kinds of textile fabrics of different colors, the waiters are friendly welcomed. "How much fabric for a paris lace kebaya? 'I asked.
"Five hundred thousand dollars," replied the waitress.
"How much for sewing? 'I asked.
"Sorry, we can not sew kebaya, but I can drop off in front of the shop there", I also had to follow the waiter took it to the designated textile.
"Good afternoon, could you please sew kebaya?"
"Can".
"How much sewing?"
"One and a half million with the buster," the clerk replied.
"It could be finished in one week?"
"Let me call handyman measuring", the clerk flashed into the room before finally returning with an expert in measuring clothing. On the wall a picture of a cashier tertampang Indian man in traditional dress, apparently he is the owner of the store.

Kebaya was completed in a week with very subtle buster that will be difficult to be made by a regular tailor. Besides kebaya, textile shops can also sew jazz suits, safari, office uniforms, and various models of clothes that customers require. The price of each dress to taste a variety of buyers with a variety of alternatives that exist. Textile stores with presence in it tailor facilitate buyers in getting the required variety of fashions. While home eating cheap fast food and convenience in shopping centers complement this, so that visitors can berisantai while enjoying a meal option. Seller salad, cotton candy, traditional foods, and snacks less exciting in offering merchandise, then be complete activity in the shopping center.

The flurry continued to remain on the Road Between, at the south end of the Market Baroe. To the right of one-way streets, there are hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, Indomart and old buildings that leave an impression. Freely along the pavement passing under a shady tree-Pohan and banyan roots hanging. Guests staying at the hotel can freely Road Between go shopping on foot to get all the necessary stuff.
Morning, relatively quiet atmosphere Baroe Market, just looked newspaper hawkers, vendors of fresh fruits, and a flurry of activity in the rest of the night. While the rising sun, life on this market slowly rose, the doors began to open stores, street vendors wares along the way. Atmosphere is getting increasingly crowded afternoon, visitors grew dense, more dense in the afternoon. Activity in this market reached its peak at night, blinding fluorescent mercury lamps, the roar of the vehicle, the hustle and bustle of the transaction, also laughing joke of all visitors, the streets being so crowded, so visitors have to tread carefully. Reflexology provides services for visitors fatigue, ATMs of various banks stood at almost every corner, visitors do not have to worry about running out of cash. Passer Baroe than a shopping center, but a place of exciting tourist destination.

This kind of atmosphere started since 193 years ago, precisely in 1820 when Batavia Government building Passer Baroe as economic sites. Dutch people who settled in Rijswijk - now Jl. Veterans - start shopping routines in place. The shops in Passer Baroe built with Chinese and European architectural styles. In this market are the people India - Indonesia hawking fabrics, sports equipment, and footwear to date. Kimia Farma Pharmacy, Lee Ie Seng shop, home furnishings store Bed, store hours Tjung-Tjung, and optician Seis - Tjun Lie - survive from earlier times to the present. Similarly Isardas tailor suits, Hariom, and Gehimal, tailors still exist to this day.

The market atmosphere Baroe be more specific on the Jakarta Anniversary celebrations which falls in June. This month Passer Baroe Festival held by exhibiting a variety of typical local products such as the culinary capital of the Betawi culture, and Chinese culture. In the midst of the capital city with a traffic jam every day to spend time shopping Passer Baroe a special moment when human beings take the further step advancement era with a variety of luxury mall as a shopping center. There is an ancient and old to life in Passer Baroe, when I stepped foot into this place, as if visitors were also reveals the history of a life that began to be recorded since 193 years ago.

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PASKOMARAOT

                                         By: David Jimanipits and Dewi Linggasari 

 Is a basic belief in the Asmat people's lives, that all of the big tree that thrives in the forest normally inhabited spirits. Spirit - the spirit has two characters, there are good some are bad and wishes to destroy human life. Paskamoraot consists of fitting word which means there was an iron wood spirit kamoraot is beautiful daughters. Paskamoraot means ironwood beautiful daughter. So, the story begins when the spirit of beautiful ironwood daughter wants to be a companion to live one Beorpit young man who is good at hunting in that era. 

Mr. Jupuu of Kampung As the story begins: in a village which is exactly a dashing and handsome young man, named Beorpit. The handsome young man living with friends - peers in a very long house - Jee - or Yae. In this house, young people who do not have a spouse accommodated and nurtured attitude. Similarly Beorpit and friends - his friends, they undergo the same training as any young man in the village. Every day they practiced hunting small animals such as birds manifold. When you are proficient they can switch hunt wild animals.In order to achieve a high level of proficiency, a young man is not only take a week or a month, but many - years until he received the designation Jimaripit - artisan hunting - Jimaripit are people who have been good at hunting that come from the people around the village. He has been expertly kill large animals repeatedly and the results enjoyed by the people who settled in the village.

 At the roadside village where Beorpit always passing by, back and forth, ironwood tree grew Paskamoraot place to stay. In the world of heaven Paskamoraot is a beautiful woman, she was beautiful. Once upon a time, a beautiful girl heaven it felt so attracted to Beorpit, the handsome hunter who always passing by, coming and going past their homes every day, in order to train the skill to hunt small animals to switch hunting wild animals.The days turned into weeks, into months, year after year passed. Beorpit began to prove proficiency among their peers. Every day they do a race, there are times when Beorpit win by taking home lots of prey. However, there are times when he returns empty-handed-lose-defeat into a very disturbing mind at rest, because it is the youth always organize a strategy to win, to go home with always bringing home lots of prey.On a beautiful morning at dawn in the eastern sky  the solar light golden yellow, the young hunter back to train at the same time test their skills - each in the hunt. They sneak into the bush to scout then shoot game animals. Dusk when the sun slips slowly in copper red light in the western sky all hunters return to the village. 
  
Beorpit friends come home in a sense of pride, because it brings with it the results of game animals. However Beorpit returned empty-handed, he lost today, not even an animal can be shot.He did not give up, the next morning Beorpit sneak back into the forest. He devoted all his skills, then in the afternoon when he returned to the village, proved he won the race. Beorpit bring home the bird - birds in abundance. The prey that he handed out to the parents and friends - friends in the JEE, then giving it immediately creates familiarity in anatara all hunters. With the victory, the Beorpit really - really has matured and is worthy to have a life partner.However, who exactly is fit to be his life partner? Even Beorpit never know for sure. At that time, parents arranged marriages a secret. In contrast to the present time when every person the right to choose a spouse based on love without the strong influence of the parents. Beorpit be a legitimate part of life in the village, he grew follow strict traditional order.  

On the other hand secretly intent hearts Princess Iron Wood Spirit also getting harder. When hunting with your friends - for the umpteenth time, Beorpit shoots cassowary. Now the position is slightly higher among the other hunters. In the next he managed archery hunt wild boar, this success led to tribal elders began to consider, that it is time Beorpit earned the nickname Jimaripit - accomplished hunter - In some hunting elsewhere, quietly Princess Iron Wood had to take some birds Beorpit archery results. However, Beorpit never aware of this. He knows the number of prey decreases, but somehow disappeared where?One time when Beorpit walk - the road in the village, he found a tree that had sago flower. All sorts of birds gathered in the trees to suck the juice of sugar. Beorpit determined to make a hiding place in the tree in order to shoot the birds from close range. The work was completed for days - days. He set off in the morning and return in the afternoon, the hope is to be able to shoot a bird hide in large numbers. Finally ladder and cage finished, Beorpit has had a hiding place to shoot birds.Paskamoraot continued attention Beorpit busy making stairs and confinement, he concoct the right time to meet Beorpit expressed willingness as a wife. In the afternoon, after many days of sunlight while leaning, dim yellowish Beorpit complete the entire job. He stepped back while contemplating his work, imagine how much the number of birds which suck juice of sugar in the sago tree flower, he would shoot them all. Beorpit Jee arrived at greeted friends - his friends, they all wondered, why Beorpit always come home in the afternoon. However, never once brought a bird or other wild animal, while he was classified as a hunter.
 When his friend asked, "What exactly are you doing in the middle of the forest, while you never came up with a big game was in hand?"
 "I did go hunting into the forest, but had never met an animal too. Maybe there was a mistake that I did, "replied Beorpit."Keep trying and never give comrade", another hunter trying to entertain Beorpit. Examines a young man with a simper his support, he did not intend to tell about his work for days to make stairs and hiding places in the sago tree.That night fell the night before in a studded black stars, Beorpit sleep very well. Morning before the whole village awake, before dawn broke, the hunter has left the village, carrying and arrow. He goes into the woods toward the cage that he has made. Paskamoraot secretly followed her from behind, Beorpit never know. With agile hunters climb the ladder to reach the top of the cage he has made, slowly fajarpun broke. Dew which crystallized at the end of the leaves begin to fall to the ground. Beorpit set of arrows in any gaps that have been designed like arrangement of cannons and a variety of combat equipment arranged neatly in a castle, preparing to await the enemy.Dawn was broke, the sun looks as if the ball raksakasa are slowly, but surely moving towards the sky. Bird - birds start arriving crowded, long night as a trap for the birds so silent, the birds can not fly freely to make a living. But this morning to be the last for the life of a flock of birds, no one was safe from the hunter shooting arrows that had escaped from coaching for many - years in the JEE. While Princess Iron Wood Spirit has been in place hunting. Since morning Beorpit started archery bird, but Princess Iron Wood Spirit always takes a few birds then inserted into Kriya camshaft. Beorpit also be surprised, when picking up the birds - birds which die with arrows, there is always a matter of the missing. Where has most of the birds? The hunter wonders in the heart.Beorpit continues archery birds arrive until late afternoon, the sun has turned into a dull light that reassuring. Although few birds that successfully arrows do not fit, but Beorpit still get the great game. He went home to bring the prey into the village. Friends - Friends hunters and all the villagers were astonished to results obtained this young hunter. Bird - the bird is distributed to people, young and old who live with him in JEE. There was never bored Beorpit archery bird in a cage, while Paskamoraot - Princess Iron Wood Spirit - secretly confiscated most hunted bird Beorpit.Paskamoraot finally could not contain herself.One afternoon when Beorpit bring down birds - bird Paskamoraot Beorpit immediately hugged from behind. Beorpit, hunter was very surprised, she screamed as loud as - hardness, because of fear. Paskamoraot not concerned with shouts Beorpit, the stronger he hugged itusambil hunter said, "Beorpit, Dor Orema! Beorpit, I was a wife", it sounds so soft, shock Beorpit ease back, while all the tiredness vanished instantly. Beorpit as downed power enhancer liquid back, he was the voice replied.
 "Or Cacotoma? Oh who are you? "
 "Dor Coot A Pok A Son! Paskamoraota bam, I'm not a regular woman I Iron Wood's daughter. Dor Ora Bayuut Demin, I want to marry you ", Paskamoraot again spoke.Beorpit has grown, had also arrived while editing a girl to live together. Soft words Paskamoraot really thrilled him, especially the appearance of the princess. Beorpit never seen women as beautiful as this. And beautiful women that has obviously volunteered as seoranag wife. He was not dreaming. Who beminat not edit ayu princess nan have been willing to marry? Beorpit immediately replied firmly, "Aia, doremv akata, oh my beautiful wife!" Beorpit turn around and embrace the spirit of a woman who has now become a common man with closely. Now, the two embraced, accord and one heart."It has been a long time since I saw you walking in love, go home and go hunting. I intend to be your wife, "as stated Paskomeraot hearts content. Princess Iron Wood Spirit was not able to return to her world again, he proved loyalty by saying, "Or dora pene a bow? dor bamdee ora? "Are you going to get mad at me? I want to go home with you? "Beorpit replied "I receive you to stay with me today, and so on, as long as life is contained in the body. To this day I do not know who my future wife, now I have found it. Now you come with me back to the village, it was night ".Paskamoraot is gladly accepted the invitation Beorpit, he has long been in love with this young man. Tit for tat, Beorpit who do not know who the bride is actually now getting, a very pretty girl and love her. Beorpit not have to say for the second time to ask Paskamoraot back to his village. They both go hand in hand, carrying of prey back to the village, walked with certainty.Friends - friends who are in Jee Beorpit wonder and awe, the hunter and came back with a big win, the birds very much. There was a particularly of that victory, that Beorpit also get pretty girls, beautiful, and charming, he is Paskamoraot - female spirits, Princess Iron Wood - which has now become a man. Beorpit divide - away birds that catch the hunter friends, then he returned to his parents' house. He has had a life partner, parents Beorpit amazed by the presence of the beautiful girl, they were received as a child Paskamoraot law.Both were married by custom and then live together as a married couple in a happy mood. Perkawinannnya Paskomaraot following year after giving birth to a child, then their happiness to be complete. Happiness redundantly continue from year to year up to the end of life. In the village Beorpit remembered as a powerful human spirit can merried daughter ironwood.